Investing and Personal Finance
Lots of mentions and reviews today for The RESP Book. I have to say that I’m really happy with the coverage and praise that the book is getting. Thanks so much to everyone who is writing or telling people about the book. The Globe & Mail Chaya Cooperberg of the Globe & Mail wrote a [...]
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Happy Halloween in advance! In case you missed it, the Globe and Mail published the first chapter of my book. Have I mentioned that I wrote a book? I also unveiled the monster Canadian discount brokerage comparison earlier this week. I swear I could have written another book in the time it took me to [...]
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Yes, it’s true – the Globe and Mail thought highly enough of my RESP book to publish an excerpt which ended up being the entire first chapter. Needless to say, I was quite flattered and hope that some of you go and read it. I’ll be doing an interview tomorrow with one of the Globe [...]
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Another week and another great review of my book. I’m really happy about how extremely positive all the book reviews are thus far. When bloggers review other blogger’s books – it’s a bit like stock analysts and their buy and sell ratings. You will probably never see a bad review, but if the blogger doesn’t [...]
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I love the fall. Last weekend we went to a pumpkin farm and watched pumpkins being shot out of a cannon. It doesn’t get much better than that. Next week, I’ll be unveiling a post which I’ve been working on for a few months – stay tuned. Have a great weekend everyone! On with links [...]
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A couple more book reviews this week – both sites are hosting book giveaways as well, go on over and enter to win. Grocery Alerts wrote an extremely flattering review of the book. Check out the review here. Michael James on Money wrote a great review. His giveaway is ending soon. If you are holding [...]
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I’ve got two exciting RESP book announcements today. Is anyone getting tired of hearing about book announcements? Good, me neither! MoneySense interview First up – I was interviewed a while back by Dan Bortolotti, who runs the Canadian Couch Potato blog. Dan also writes for MoneySense magazine and interviewed me for an article he wrote [...]
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I had the pleasure of reading another review of The RESP Book over at the Landlord Rescue Blog. The review was very positive and quite hilarious. You can also see a cute picture of her son. Rachelle had this to say: It’s like a breath of fresh air for information starved people looking for an [...]
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I would like to draw your attention to the very first reviews of my book – The RESP Book. I’ve been busy sending out review copies to bloggers all across the land, so it’s nice to see that they are starting to be delivered. Review #1 Larry MacDonald of Canadian Business wrote a review which [...]
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Lots of posts on MSB this week – I thought maybe instead of one good post, I would publish three average ones instead. I ordered quite a few review copies of The RESP Book, and after a couple of weeks of deliberations, Amazon has finally shipped them. I’m hoping this means you will see a [...]
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I hosted a book giveaway of Pensionize Your Nest Egg by Moshe Milevsky and Alexandra Macqueen this week. And the winner is…. #6 – Myke. Congratulations! Here are my favourite links from the week Thinking of starting a business? Make sure it’s not a coffee shop. Theresa is a real estate agent who makes videos [...]
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First off – I’m proud to say that Rob Carrick of the Globe and Mail mentioned my RESP book in his newsletter today – thanks a lot Rob! Pensionize Your Next Egg Earlier today, I reviewed the very good retirement planning book, Pensionize Your Nest Egg. One of the authors – Alexandra Macqueen was kind [...]
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I wanted to draw your attention to an interview I did with Kevin Press of the Today’s Economy Blog about my recently released book The RESP Book. I had the pleasure of a phone interview with Kevin a couple of weeks ago – we talked about quite a few things so go on over and [...]
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Exciting week here with the announcement of my book, The RESP Book which is available on Amazon. Make sure you tell everyone you know about the book! The first ever Canadian Real Estate Carnaval was published this week over at Land Lord Rescue. It’s a great collection of real estate articles so check it out. [...]
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Fall is here, but the weather is still pretty nice here in Toronto. I will likely be launching my book next week. Look for it! On with the links One of the common myths of the stock market is that it will go down when all the boomers cash out. Larry Swedroe explains why this [...]
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This week, I’d like to highlight a few carnivals of Canadian content that have started recently: The Canadian Personal Finance & Investing Carnival just ran it’s 5th edition and is chock full of top Canadian personal finance and investing articles. Go check it out. Rachelle from Land Lord Rescue is starting a Canadian Real Estate [...]
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I was reading about the book launch party for a book I’m eagerly waiting for – Pensionize Your Nest Egg by Moshe Milevsky and Alexandra MacQueen over on Jon Chevreau’s blog. Apparently it was quite the affair with catered food, financial celebrities and whatnot. It had never occurred to me to have a launch party [...]
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Big week around here. Mr. Cheap announced on Tuesday that he would be leaving the blog and on Wednesday I mentioned that I’ve written a book. The book is completed, but I’m working on some of the final publishing details. The final copy was submitted to the publisher and I received a proof copy yesterday. [...]
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As Mr. Cheap announced yesterday, our blog partnership has come to an end. It’s been a great three years and I only hope that he continues to write elsewhere, so I can still enjoy his posts. Future direction of Money Smarts Blog My plan for Money Smarts Blog is to make the blog more focused [...]
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Mike recently hinted at some upcoming changes and got frequent commenters intrigued. In the past, it’s often take us a couple of stabs to clearly convey changes to the blog, so this is my half of the description of what’s happening. Mike should be providing more details tomorrow. Mike recently called me up, reminded me [...]
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